Adding Smart Home Blinds - Yoolax VS Smartwings Zigbee Shades
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
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00:00 Intro & Why?
09:24 Hands on - Smartwings
13:26 Hands on - Yoolax
14:44 Home Automation
16:15 Costs
17:46 Closing Thoughts
19:11 The BEST Part! - Наука та технологія
I'd use the Purge warning when they closed! My wife would insist I turned the Purge sound off. She would win. I will still try it because it will be super cool.
Consider it done... I must find the correct timing now.
@@digiblurDIY Alexa activate Purge defense mode!
Really helpful! Thanks!
Nice looking blinds. Thanks Travis.
Glad you like them!
Ive got smartwings, they are great
I'm using the IKEA Fyrtur Blackout Roller Blind
Looks like the store it pairs up with me in TX only has a few sizes that wouldn't fit my windows unfortunately.
How loud are these mechanisms? I’d like to get some for the bedroom but not if they’re overly noisy.
Not too bad. They probably sound louder on video. You can hear them in the same room though. I have a sound meter I can check with. I found the Smart wings ones were quieter as I the metal front panel on the Yoolax would vibrate at times.
On the smartwings blinds, is the fabric centered in the window - or offset to one side a little due to motor placement?
It is offset a little more on one side to fit in the charging port but it isn't a whole lot. You can add the blackout strips
Are there any readonably priced zigbee or zwave motors you can buy for turning "dumb" blinds into smart ones?
Tuya might have some from what I recall.
Can you create a video describing the high availability of Home Assistant? or any other fix if the home server fails
Use the remote instead. Simple and just works.
Hi Travis, I just received the same zigbee version but it came with no instructions at all. Were you able to pair straight to zigbee network or did you have to pair to app first? How did you put the blinds in pairing mode? TIA
I paired it up with the zigbee network I had setup already, I put my Zigbee network in pairing and held down the button on the blinds for 5 seconds or so.
@@digiblurDIY Got it. I was holding down too long and forcing a factory reset. Held down until second jiggle of blinds and it entered pairing. Thx
Ryobi has these awsome usb c rechargeable batteries now that would be great to go around charging the smart wing.
That's what I use on the ones that don't have sunlight to charge. A simple power bank. I have found these need the USB A to C cable as they don't have the right chip to signal the usb c voltage needed.
The Ikea ones are more reasonable price wise- but trying to find them in stock is PIA. I am using those and am very happy with them Wondering if you even considered those?
No Ikea near me unfortunately and I have tried getting other simple products from them but they wouldn't ship to me so I skipped them.
@@digiblurDIY well that sucks.
Checked one model of ikea mentioned by another comment but it doesn't look like they have my sizes. Guessing they don't do custom cuts.
@@digiblurDIY yea you kinda get what you get. If it works your in.. they ain't really as pretty as yours but hey throw some curtains in front of them and wifey is happy..
Do these work with ZHA also?
Yes.
Where did you get that shirt bad as f.
Great video as usually thanks for the video and discord and the widnow fabric's proper name as I have been told many times by our company's interior designer always correcting me "decorative window fabric".. Laughs have a great one.
Thanks! I recall it was on one of the Woot Tshirt sales.
I couldn't get the Yoolax blinds paired to home assistant or the Amazon Echo (gen4). It it not found by either of them. I ended up getting a Bond (RF) hub to control the blinds.
I've paired them up with Amazon Echo that have the zigbee module inside before. Sounds like they might have sent the wrong model?
@@digiblurDIY It turns out that Zigbee2MQTT works for me with the Yoolax shades, where as ZHA and Alexa would not not even detect them for some reason. Thanks
Can you set it to open and close at set times automatically?
With automations I have mine opening and closing based on times and house alarm states.
@@jmdangelo Yes, I also have these shades opening and closing at times using the Bond controller and also home assistant.
for charging, could always go POE with usb splitter perhaps
not a bad idea but fishing outside walls are tough!!
@@digiblurDIY there's a video out there that dude used Poe for just this. Pretty slick. Strange how he had a wall that had five windows though.
@@guyin916 do you know whose video showed POE? I’ve been searching for how that solution is put together.
They make USB C POE splitters for Raspberry Pi and others that would work.
@@karenmitchell6814 what digiblurDIY said. USB C POE splitter. If you go this route, grab a spare or two. Some come in multi-packs. Blinds will still be controlled like normal and POE splitter will keep the battery inside charged up (just like the solar panel would).
What is the same of your blind fabric color
I went with the Pale Gray
How loud are they sound loud on the video ?
They can be somewhat loud if you have them on full speed, especially with 4 or 5 going at once. I don't have a decibel meter to see, but we do talk over them when they are opening or closing
Did either of the shades go all the way up? It looked like they hung down a little when they were open.
Good question. Yes they go all the way up but on some of them I changed the top point to hide the solar panel I had on the back. I think I showed this in one clip with the panel.
@@digiblurDIY Gotcha, thanks
But there is a brand coming out that is very similar to these that has Matter on-board.
Not waiting on Thread myself as it has been delayed a good bit.
Are you from Louisiana?
Yup. Let's Geauxxxxxx!
@@digiblurDIY I'm from that Op but been in Texas since 2000. About to move into a new house and plan on putting some SmartWings blinds on a few windows. Running HomeAssistant and trying to figure out if I just go with Zigbee motors or Matter ones. I sent their support team an email to figure out if there are any feature differences between the two.
@loganboyd don't get Matter or Thread stuff for Home Assistant unless you just absolutely have no other choice. Stick with the other tried and true local protocols like in this case.. Zigbee.
@@digiblurDIY Zigbee is definitely my preference unless I would be missing out on some functionality like being able to open the blinds to a certain perfentage vs only being able to fully open or close on zigbee.
Nope. All that works as expected. Matter and Thread is a mess still.